I really have nothing against sunshine but this is getting truly ridiculous. I'm going to have to start sleeping in a tent on my deck so that I can at least get a rested sleep. It's seems about 10 degrees cooler outside than it is inside the house.
As many people know, I don't really like hot weather. I don't mind the sun as long as there is a breeze and as long as it doesn't heat my house up to sauna temperatures. I don't travel in the summer to hot places as I prefer to go on holiday when the weather is more bearable. We've never really had to worry about the hot weather much here on the west coast because we are right on the ocean and there is usually some sort of breeze to even temperatures out.
This past week (and actually the weekend was the worst) the temperatures have been incredibly high, even for those who enjoy the heat. And, I'm not really liking it...
I remember the summer that I spent in Japan and I swear it almost killed me. The temperatures were high and the humidity was 100%. It may be kind of difficult but imagine the amount of moisture in the air in which it should be raining but it's not. The water just sticks in the air and sticks to everyone else. The worst part is that there is no relief at nighttime like we have here. The temperature falls to 32 degrees Celcius at night and then rises throughout the day.
I can't help thinking that it's started here now (except that it still cools down at night).
I arrived at the office this morning to find that the heat is on in the building. It's already freaking hot outside and it's even hotter inside. So hot that even the water cooler (the cool tap) contents are more than lukewarm.
I am not a fan of air conditioning for two reasons. One is because I don't think it's good for the body to go from hot to cool to hot so quickly when you are going into or leaving buildings and the second is because it is just contributing to the increase of greenhouse gases which makes it hotter outside anyway. I refuse to have it at my home and would really just prefer to have an office where the windows open. If it's too hot at home, I can always go into the basement.
I know that I can survive this heat but I can't help wonder whether it's just going to get worse because of global warming.
Anyway, I'd better go. I'm working up a sweat just typing...
As many people know, I don't really like hot weather. I don't mind the sun as long as there is a breeze and as long as it doesn't heat my house up to sauna temperatures. I don't travel in the summer to hot places as I prefer to go on holiday when the weather is more bearable. We've never really had to worry about the hot weather much here on the west coast because we are right on the ocean and there is usually some sort of breeze to even temperatures out.
This past week (and actually the weekend was the worst) the temperatures have been incredibly high, even for those who enjoy the heat. And, I'm not really liking it...
I remember the summer that I spent in Japan and I swear it almost killed me. The temperatures were high and the humidity was 100%. It may be kind of difficult but imagine the amount of moisture in the air in which it should be raining but it's not. The water just sticks in the air and sticks to everyone else. The worst part is that there is no relief at nighttime like we have here. The temperature falls to 32 degrees Celcius at night and then rises throughout the day.
I can't help thinking that it's started here now (except that it still cools down at night).
I arrived at the office this morning to find that the heat is on in the building. It's already freaking hot outside and it's even hotter inside. So hot that even the water cooler (the cool tap) contents are more than lukewarm.
I am not a fan of air conditioning for two reasons. One is because I don't think it's good for the body to go from hot to cool to hot so quickly when you are going into or leaving buildings and the second is because it is just contributing to the increase of greenhouse gases which makes it hotter outside anyway. I refuse to have it at my home and would really just prefer to have an office where the windows open. If it's too hot at home, I can always go into the basement.
I know that I can survive this heat but I can't help wonder whether it's just going to get worse because of global warming.
Anyway, I'd better go. I'm working up a sweat just typing...
4 Comments:
it frightens me that it is so hot here as well we have just had the hottest july on record with recirds being beat year on year.Cant be long for the ice cap to melt then ,its waterworld.I stopped cleaning my car last year to save water and my friends laugh some call it the flying shi*e
For years I didn't use air conditioning, and I was one of those folks who had nothing good to say about it. Now, we have AC in the house, and when it gets really freakin hot, we turn it on, and I confess I like it a lot better than living in a sweatlodge.
which part of japan were you living in, by the way?
we've been enjoying a vague sort of cool spell in tokyo of late, but august is no doubt waiting in the wings with heat and humidity to share in abundance.
:)
David, I do think that we agree on this issue. When I had a vehicle, I never, ever washed it. What the rain didn't take off of it, didn't really matter.
Mister Anchovy, The book I was reading about redesigning products discussed that there are ways to build houses that can use nature to keep things cool or warm. It's really too bad that there is never the insight to create such buildings before the problem gets bad.
Peter, I lived in Otsu-shi in Shiga Prefecture. It's very close to Kyoto...
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